yiff

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Yiff was originally invented by the role-player ‘Foxen’ as part of a range of onomatopoeic words that form the fox-ese language of the furry role-playing community: yiff, yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf (in order from most positive connotations to most negative connotations). Yiff meant yes or an exuberant hello!. Later, yiff was assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, a meaning that had previously been assigned to yipp (a coarse form of yip).

Other claimed etymologies include:

[edit] Interjection

yiff

  1. (onomatopoeia) Representing a bark (of a fox.)
  2. (furry jargon, interrogative) “Anyone willing/desiring to have sex?”
  3. (furry jargon, interrogative) “Are you willing/desiring to have sex?”

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to yiff

Third person singular
yiffs

Simple past
yiffed

Past participle
yiffed

Present participle
yiffing

to yiff (third-person singular simple present yiffs, present participle yiffing, simple past and past participle yiffed)

  1. (furry jargon) To have sex, to mate.
    • 1997-10-17, StarChaser, “What to genocide”, rec.games.roguelike.nethack[1],
      Monsters snicker at me, succubi refuse to be seen with me, my dog tries to yiff my leg, shopkeepers say ‘No shirt, no shoes, no service’.
    • 1997-09-22, Locandez, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, alt.lifestyle.furry[2],
      And even if foxes are allowed to yiff more than once, I’d still have to wait for the vixen to come into heat.
    • 1997-09-23, MegaDog the Nettweiler, “Hypothetical Question #3: acting natural”, alt.lifestyle.furry[3],
      Well, i’ve witnessed male foxes queueing up to yiff one of my local vixens… repeatedly!
  2. (slang, Internet) To have cybersex.
    • 1996-07-14, j.serdy, “RFC: A Beginner’s Guide to TinySex on the FurryMuck”, alt.fan.furry[4],
      Of course the inverse is possible with all these possibilities, and you can be having a yiff with a partner in the room with you and be having a pleasant non-sexual conversation with another remote player through a page-conversation.
  3. (slang, Internet) To talk, to chat in a chat room.

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

Singular
yiff

Plural
yiffs

yiff (plural yiffs)

  1. (furry jargon) Sexual intercourse, the act of yiffing.
  2. (furry jargon) A bark, a “yiff”!

[edit] Translations

[edit] Adjective

yiff (comparative yiffer, superlative yiffest)

  1. (furry jargon) sexy, sexual, arousing
  2. (furry jargon) pornographic
  3. (furry jargon) capable of sexual intercourse
  4. (furry jargon) willing to have sexual intercourse

[edit] Translations

[edit] Usage notes

The term is not to be confused with the acronym YIFF, although a backronym has been created for that (sense 3) in an attempt to explain the etymology of yiff.

[edit] References


[edit] Middle English

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English ġif.

[edit] Conjunction

yiff

  1. if

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English giefan.

[edit] Verb

yiff

  1. give
    • 1393, Jean d’Arras Roman de Melusine
      Another ordre to you yiff I shall,
      A knyght will you mak of full hye degre
      As your brethren ben named ryght roiall.
Personal tools
In other languages